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Around and around we go
This is gonna be a long one.... So here we are on the train to Paris. We supposedly can get wifi, but I am having a problem registering. So while I write this real time, I am off line. We said goodbye to Emma today at the train station as she headed for the airport and we had our high speed train to catch. We waited about 45 minutes and then it …
Icey Island Refuges
Our foodie stop accomplished and stores of famous sardines loaded into our trunks we continued North along the coast. Back in Paris a taxi driver told Bernt and Jennifer --in broken English--that it was going to snow, and we had better beat the storm or we'd be ill-prepared as roads closed all over France. The snow came, and evidence of the rarity …
The Beaches of Normandy Weekend: Part 5
The last leg of our trip was a short visit to the Mont Saint-Michel. We left St.Malo mid-morning, and drove about an hour to the famed mount. The Mont Saint-Michel is a island fortress in a bay several miles from the English Channel. The mount used to be located in a forest, but thousands of years ago, a tsunami devastated the area and brought the sea level up several miles. Now, during high tide, the fortress is completely surrounded by water; ...
The Beaches of Normandy Weekend: Part 4
... yoke, and the third with chocolate. The main ingredient put on the galettes, though, is butter, loads and loads of butter. I'm pretty sure they soak the damn things in the trying pan before they add anything to it. The people of Brittany must have conferred with Paula Dean or something, because after the first course, i could feel my arteries clogging up right there at the table. The second galette wasn't so bad because it had actual food in it, but after the first, ...
Onze laatste dag
Het was onze laatste dag in Frankrijk. Het was mistig en het regende. bijna 9 weken lang heb ik ongelooflijk goed weer gehad, maar vandaag was het echt mistroostig. Was dit een voorbode.
We hadden alleen maar de voormiddag, want nadien was het op weg naar huis. Het was lang geleden dat ik er nog eens geweest ben, maar eerlijk : ik ...